Levi Woodbury

Levi Woodbury (22 December 1789-4 September 1851) was Governor of New Hampshire from 5 June 1823 to 3 June 1824 (succeeding Samuel Bell and preceding David L. Morril), a US Senator from 16 March 1825 to 3 March 1831 (succeeding John Fabyan Parrott and preceding Isaac Hill) and from 4 March 1841 to 20 November 1845 (succeeding Henry Hubbard and preceding Benning W. Jenness), Secretary of the Navy from 23 May 1831 to 30 June 1834 (succeeding John Branch and preceding Mahlon Dickerson), Secretary of the Treasury from 1 July 1834 to 4 March 1841 (succeeding Roger B. Taney and preceding Thomas Ewing), and an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 20 September 1845 to 4 September 1851 (succeeding Joseph Story and preceding Benjamin Robbins Curtis). He was a Democratic Party member.

Biography
Levi Woodbury was born in Francestown, New Hampshire in 1789, and he established a legal practice in his hometown in 1812. After serving in the State Senate, he was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1817, and he went on to serve as Governor from 1823 to 1824 and as a US Senator from 1825 to 1831. He served as Secretary of the Navy under President Andrew Jackson and as Secretary of the Treasury under President Jackson and Martin Van Buren. From 1841 to 1845, Woodbury returned to the Senate, but, in 1845, he accepted President James K. Polk's nomination to the US Supreme Court, serving until his death in 1851.